Total Page : 464
Publisher : Canongate Books Ltd
Publication Date : 2009 01 15
>> Suprisingly Candid Self Portrait Of A Fascinating Man
FINALLY got to sit down and read this after sneaking peeks of it at Wal Mart on the Internet etc In spite of a slow middle section sorry I grew up in northern Illinois and the first newspaper I read on a regular basis was the Chicago Tribune so the inner workings of Chicago politics are not exactly novel to me I found this to be fascinating reading I was particularly intrigued by Obama s frank depiction of his teenage years at the risk of sounding naive I really didn t expect the f bomb to be dropped more than once in a book by a sitting president and his in depth examination of the lives of his father and paternal grandfather whose stories have been unsuprisingly vastly oversimplfied in the mass media In conclusion I think you ll find this to be a insightful and well written work regardless of which side of the political fence you sit on
>> Great Book
I loved this book I m so glad he wrote it before attempting public office because it was an honest expression of his experiences and beliefs I think many things would have been left out if he had considered possible future consequences However by leaving them in there were no skeletons in his closet This book was interesting to me because it was the true story of a man with a very unusual life Even if he had never been president it would have been a fascinating book
>> hard not to like him
I ve just re read it for the 2nd time and still like it a lot Very inspiring
